Notice Anything ‘Out of Whack’ During This Major League Baseball Game?

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Look close. Notice anything awry with the game between the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds on Wednesday:

Notice anything wrong? (Source: Mlb.tv via Deadspin)

Still not seeing it? Check out the batter’s box:

The lines of the batter’s box are just a little off. (Source: MLB.tv via Yahoo)

“Though it didn’t take long for them to get destroyed and disappear, the batter’s boxes originally drawn in for Wednesday night’s Reds-Giants game at AT&T Park [...] may be the most crooked and awkward looking we’ve ever seen,” Yahoo’s Big League Stew blog writes.

The camera then pans to an overhead shot further accentuating the lines:

An even better look at the bad lines. (Source: MLB.tv)

What makes this even more surprising is that baseball traditionally takes the batter’s box very seriously. In fact, last season during a game between the White Sox and Tigers, the umpire stopped the game and had the box redrawn after a player complained about it.

“The lines should’ve been back farther,” Detroit manager Jim Leyland said at the time. “The batter’s box was fine, but they had it moved up too far. It wasn’t aligned with the plate and everything the way it was set up, so they just changed it.”

Apparently no one was as eagle-eyed on Wednesday: the lines were never redrawn.